As a night of far-right riots are planned across the UK, Devinder Bains asks you to check in on your Black and Brown friends.
I put down the phone after calling my parents and break down in tears. They live over 100 miles away in the Midlands and my mum has just rushed home after hearing that far-right rioters have set fire to a bus not far from where she was shopping. She explains that there’s more attacks planned nearer to their home later that evening. I beg them to stay indoors before I hang up.
Just two months ago, I became a victim of racial abuse myself on a train in London, when a white man in his 20s talked loudly about voting for Reform UK in the general election, before singling me out in a carriage of white people to repeatedly shout that “Islam is disgusting” in my face. He didn’t know – and didn’t care – that I’m not a Muslim. For those who look visibly Muslim, it’s even scarier, as London-based photographer Noorunisa explains.
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